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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

SHEEP is another good test for discerning truthfulness of information: Source - Where's it from? History- kind of stories or material they promote? Evidence - Is there any evidence for claim? Emotion - They use emotional language? Pictures - Are there more photos than text? t.co/LaMiDjNYof

DON'T GET TRICKED
BY ONLINE MISINFORMATION

Remember these checks when browsing social media

Source
Look at what lies beneath. Check the about page of a website or
account, look at any account info and search for names or usernames

History
Does this source have an agenda? Find out what subjects it
regularly covers or if it promotes only one perspective

Evidence
Explore the details of a claim or meme and find out if it is backed
up by reliable evidence from elsewhere.

Emotion
Does the source rely on emotion to make a point? Check for
sensational, inflammatory and divisive language.

Pictures
Pictures paint a thousand words. Identify what message an image
is portraying and whether the source is using images to get attention

Think SHEEP before you share

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/10/2026

if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

6 ways to evaluate information, created by NewseumEd E - Evidence: Do facts hold up? S - Source: Who made it? C - Context: What's the big picture? A - Audience: Who is it really for? P - Purpose: Why was it made? E - Execution: How is info presented? lakeland.libguides.com/c.php?g=6963...

E - Evidence
Do the facts hold up? Look for information you can verify--names, stats, places, quotes, etc.
S - Source
Who made this and can you trust them? Trace who touched the story--authors, publishers, sponsors, funders, social media users, etc.
C - Context
What's the big picture? Consider if this is the whole story and weigh other forces surrounding it--current events, cultural trends, political goals, financial pressures
A - Audience
Who is the intended audience? Look for attempts to appeal to specific groups or types of people--image choices, presentation techniques, language, content
P - Purpose
Why was this made? Look for clues to the motivation--the publisher's mission, persuasive language or images, moneymaking tactics, stated or unstated agendas, calls to action
E - Execution
How is this information presented? Consider how the way it's made affects the impact--style, grammar, tone, image choices, placement and layout

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 5h

San Francisco! On Sunday 10/25 at noon I will be chatting about my brand new comic Star Trek: Zero Point #1 at the wonderful Comix Experience on Divisadero. With the local Trek fan club, the U.S.S. Golden Gate in attendance. Come hang out! www.comixexperience.com/events/charl...

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Jamila @jamiladawson.bsky.social · 5h

Interesting although Los Angeles has got to be at least runner-up.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/10/2026

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

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Jamila @jamiladawson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think it's mostly sweet and only a wee bit annoying. It makes me remember when I was discovering the world for the first time.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Lorenzo Lippi, Woman Holding a Mask, or The Allegory of Simulation/Deception, 1650

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

People in California who are facing a terrible ICE surge: remember that if you need whistles, we are still sending them out for free. In fact, we just passed 1.7 million whistles sent out. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

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3D Printed Whistles | Linktree

We ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 3000) & where to send them.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the speed at which human beings move from "this terrible thing exists" to "everyone just has to learn to live with it" is truly alarming and illuminating. Immediately moving to compliance. Watching this in real time is incredible.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

BUY THAT WAX SEAL STARTER KIT AND TEN DIFFERENT COLORS OF SEALING WAX IT IS NOT PRACTICAL OR NECESSARY, AND THAT IS WHAT MAKES IT BEAUTIFUL

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There's no reason, no excuse, no logic, nothing that justifies a filmmaker using generative A.I. It's just bad. decider.com/2026/10/09/a...

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Directed and produced by DuVernay via her
ARRAY production company, 74th is a companion
piece to 73th, DuVernay's Oscar-nominated
documentary about the prison industrial complex,
through the lens of the Thirteenth Amendment to
the United States Constitution. Similarly, 74th
examines the Fourteenth Amendment--which
addresses rights related to citizenship, voting,
insurrection. and more-and the Reconstruction
era following the Civil War, connecting it to the
current administration's attacks on those rights

There's an extended portion of the film that--
while explaining the rise of Black Americans in
politics and civil life following the end of slavery-
features black-and-white, archival photos that
have been "brought to life." The subjects of the
once-still photos blink, laugh, and fidqet, iust as
they might on film. Anyone with a Facebook feed
will recognize the eerie, uncanny vibe that
indicates the use of generative Al.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

"A new study has for the 1st time identified the grammatical gender structure of 4,000+ languages (99% world’s pop). 38% of the world’s pop speaks a gendered language Gendered languages are assoc. with worse labor market participation rates for women and more regressive gender norms." #Linguistics

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Gendered Languages May Play a Role in Limiting Women’s Opportunities, New Research Finds

New research has found that the very structure of certain languages may shape gender norms in a way that limits women's opportunities.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

People are using gender inclusive language in French regardless of what the official position is, even on BlueSky. Examples iel ~ instead of il or elle un∙e ~ instead of un or une #French #LangSky People make any language and can unmake it.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.

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Jamila @jamiladawson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wish older people wouldn't get annoyed when young people don't know about some aspect of culture or history. Is it surprising or even annoying sometimes, yes, but if school, society or adults didn't teach it to them, how in the world are they supposed to know???

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Jamila @jamiladawson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't they do either. In the mainstream world, who would tell them? The only younger Millennials I know who are deeply aware of the AIDS crisis are those who are in Leather/kink communities that have elders who survived & who share about it.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

@beaubaumann.bsky.social is right: everyday, until the supposed day of public execution, is a struggle over the message. I would add two things: First, when I say that the Civil War taught us No Kings, No Masters, this is what I mean. The master had sovereign authority over the plantation.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sex Is a Spectrum shares a scientist’s perspective on why a binary view of sex & gender is not only misguided but harmful, & why there are multitudes of ways of being human. Now in #paperback! Read a free preview & save 30% with code PUP30: buff.ly/7uezVk0 @anthrofuentes.bsky.social

Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary by Agustín Fuentes. A resounding refutation of the idea that there’s anything natural about the gender binary."—Publishers Weekly

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The most common type of false allegation of sexual violence is DARVO complaints made by perpetrators against their very real victims. DARVO stands for Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s a way perpetrators avoid accountability by accusing their victims of wrongdoing.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Apparently someone used AI to steal Adobe’s entire platform of software programs and offer them, a complete 1:1 mirror, completely free. And then someone else decided to do this with the ENTIRE PS5 library. And turning AI against the companies that exploit us with it is…a good use of AI?

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

There’s always some mysterious foreign land that is so much more authoritarian than the place that’s happily publicly executed minorities for 400 years

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You can listen to Rachel discuss what happened here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDjw... Of particular relevance to the 'this is not who *we*' contingent.

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Discussing "Elegy for Mary Turner," a Graphic Novel About the 1918 Lynchings in Valdosta, Georgia

YouTube video by Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“I don’t understand why they tell us not to rebel when all we study are people who rebelled—Rimbaud, La Boétie…” ( @humanite.fr is doing some excellent live coverage of the student protests) www.humanite.fr/direct_conte...

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Karistina Lafae 🧚‍♀️ AuDHD Bedbound Faerie Godmother @karistinalafae.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is what a lot of people don't understand about pain meds. There is a physiological cost to NOT treating pain. Treating your pain can make it possible to do other interventions that can help reduce your pain in the long run. A similar argument can be made for psych meds and psychotherapy.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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givedogsthevote.bsky.social @givedogsthevote.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thank Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) for handing that access to Trump and his goon squad.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

"Cuteness is a way of aestheticizing powerlessness. It hinges on a sentimental attitude toward the diminutive and/or weak, which is why cute objects get even cuter when perceived as injured... Cuteness is also a commodity aesthetic, with close ties to the pleasures of domesticity & easy consumption"

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Our Aesthetic Categories: An Interview with Sianne Ngai | Adam Jasper and Sianne Ngai

The cute, the interesting, and the zany

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

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Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/10/2026

"I don’t know what every person in that group saw or knew. But I am raising one of the others. The boy who might someday be in the room. Or holding the phone. The boy who didn’t do it. The boy who could therefore spend the rest of his life explaining that he didn’t do anything." buff.ly/z7yWbR2

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An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student

“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...

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Jacky Alciné @jacky.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

As of today, I've been out of (FTE) work for 180 days. That's about 26 weeks (so nearly half a year). I've had some contracts to throw water into the hot pan of my runway but that evaporated quick. I'm open to referrals and suggestions!

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thinking about “AOL Time-Warner” today. Warnermount seems like a doomed endeavor to me. (Good luck getting me to call it Skydance.) I remember when a selzer company bought Universal. And Coca Cola owned Columbia. It’s going to be terrible and thousands will lose jobs. But it’s also doomed.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026

Sultry Day Paul Landacre, 1935 collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/413/...

A reclining nude figure reading a book near an open window, accompanied by a cat and a glass, looking out onto a landscape with rolling hills

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/10/2026

"My book THANK YOU, WHITE CHRISTIAN STRAIGHT MAN is educational and inspiring. Most importantly, it is a book that will never prompt a middle-aged white woman named Jynifer to go full 'Mama Bear' at a school board meeting." buff.ly/2Rbqt3u

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Seeking Representation for My Unbannable Book

“This groundbreaking hardcover book will appeal to many, including white Christian straight men, their white Christian straight wives, and all white Christia...

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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had a panic attack writing this and setting it up because I have a million things on my plate, and it never stops. I really really need money to move and sign a new lease. www.gofundme.com/f/a-fresh-st...

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Donate to A Fresh Start: Help Jourdain Move, organized by Jourdain Searles

I desperately need money to move and sign a lease on a new apartment. My … Jourdain Searles needs your support for A Fresh Start: Help Jourdain Move

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bookshop.org is having an anti-amazon-prime sale, & you can get THE DEVOURERS slightly discounted there. A mythic realist, queer dark fantasy about love, sex, violence, & shapeshifting set in contemporary India & the Mughal Empire. It won a Lambda Award.

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The Devourers: A Novel

For readers of Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination.LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF...

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Doctor Science ❌👑 @doctorscience.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social describes a 5-step process: naming the harm; starting to change; restitution & accepting consequences; apology; & making different choices. If you do this, *your life will change*, & we'll be able to tell. bookshop.org/p/books/on-r...

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On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

Winner NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS in Contemporary Jewish Life & PracticeMyra H. Kraft Memorial AwardA crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm—from personal tr...

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KnockDotLA @knockdotla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Do this (coming soon)

The knock La 2026 voter guide! Art by Kira Carlee

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 06/10/2026

Every time I hear someone say that women, especially in the U.S., never worked outside the home before feminism, I automatically cringe because that tells me they don't think Black women aren't women Which also tells me they don't see Black people as real people.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Over and over some people demonstrate that racism IS a material interest in their decision making and that the racism supercedes everything else. But some refuse to take these folks at their word.

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🪙⛲️Paradise 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥 @paradis3gained.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My friend Fluff was permabanned by this dumb fucking website. Just because it isn’t Twitter doesn’t mean it isn’t run by assholes. They are a non-binary survivor of torture and ongoing violence. This is their last lifeline. Please help. chuffed.org/project/1746... www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

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Help a Disabled Torture Survivor With Travel and Shelter

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For clarity, this is the list of demands at Cornell I find the strongest. Focused on accountability and a shift in power dynamics as a means of producing cultural and structural change.

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